Dog Pound Too Much - Spiny Dogfish - Yuck!!!

[Christian]

lobster bait

[tattoobob]

I hate them and they are just as bad as the seals, Plovers, Seals, and Dog Fish what else is there going to be, don't know but we can't win

[clambelly]

sorry, but you can't just have open season on extinction of a fish species just because they are a nusance to guys fishing for stripers. NMFS is not going to raise any quotas until the species is considered recovered. it takes a female dogfish almost 7 years to reach sexual maturity. its gonna be awhile before you see any mortality rates increased for those fish. i remember about 15 years ago when the boats were going out and filling up on 80,000 pounds of those buggers and selling them for pennies. i agree they are a pain when you are trying to catch bass, but you can't just take a species out of the ecosystem without any kind of consequences.

[Finaddict]

Well when these dogfish start to expand into areas when and where they historically -- this is based on more than 40 years of experience (per my contact on LI) -- are not found in waters such as inshore Long Island, too early based on years passed, it means that the species is so plentiful that they are leaving their normal grounds and expanding outward.

We either need to introduce the dogfish to the seals as food - plovers too Tattoo Bob -- then maybe some of our problem will be taken care of naturally.

But yes, we cannot extinguish an entire species because they are nusance, but we can reduce their population to more balanced levels.